RUDOF(1)

💖 RUDOF(1) — User Commands 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, and let me tell you about rudof node, the little command that spills ALL the tea about a node in an RDF Graph 🫖✨ (yes it lives in the big rudof(1) family, she's a whole manual, this is just her one iconic subcommand).

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🌸 NAME 🌸

rudof node — show literally everything about a node in an RDF Graph 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

rudof node [OPTIONS] --node <Node> [DATA]...

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Show information about a node in an RDF Graph. that's it, that's the whole mission statement, she's focused, she's serving, she's not doing extra 🎀

🍓 Arguments:

• [DATA]... — the data you're feeding her, the actual RDF stuff, bring it

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -n, --node <Node> — the node you wanna interrogate 👀 can be a URI or a prefixed name, your choice, both slay
• -t, --data-format <FORMAT> — the RDF Data format, as in what flavor your data is in
  • [default: turtle]
  • [possible values: turtle, ntriples, rdfxml, trig, n3, nquads, jsonld, pg]
• -b, --base <IRI> — the Base IRI, your anchor, your home base 🏠
• --reader-mode <MODE> — RDF Reader mode, i.e. how strict she's being with your input
  • [default: strict]
  • [possible values: lax, strict]
• -m, --show-node-mode <MODE> — the mode used to show the node information, do you wanna see who she's talking to, who's talking to her, or both 👯
  • [default: outgoing]
  • [possible values: outgoing, incoming, both]
• --show-hyperlinks <SHOW_HYPERLINKS> — show hyperlinks in the output, clickable cute-ness 🔗
  • [possible values: true, false]
• -p, --predicates <PREDICATES> — list of predicates to show, filter your faves 💖
• -d, --depth <NUMBER> — outgoing number of levels, default = 1, so like how deep down the rabbit hole you're willing to go 🐇
  • [default: 1]
• --strict-iris — require <> brackets around IRIs (strict mode). By default bare http://??? IRIs are accepted (lax mode). so no brackets = she's chill, brackets = she's got rules, pick your lane 🎀
• -c, --config-file <FILE> — config file name
• -o, --output-file <FILE> — output file name, default = terminal, yes the default is just vibing in your terminal 🖥️
• --force-overwrite — force overwrite to output file if it already exists, no asking, no crying, it's gone 💀
• --backend <BACKEND> — choose which RDF data backend to load the input into, this is the big one, pay attention bestie:
  • memory (default): parse into an in-process oxrdf::Graph.
  • qlever: launch a local QLever Docker container and index the input on disk. Requires the binary to be built with the qlever feature.
  • endpoint=<URL_OR_NAME>: query an external SPARQL endpoint by URL or by the name of an endpoint registered in the TOML config. See also the --endpoint / -e shortcut.
• -e, --endpoint <URL_OR_NAME> — shortcut for --backend endpoint=<URL_OR_NAME>.
  • accepts either a full SPARQL endpoint URL or the name of an endpoint registered in the TOML config.
  • mutually exclusive with --backend — pick one, she's not doing both, it's giving boundaries 🚫
• -h, --help — print help (see a summary with -h)

ok real talk for one sec 🫶 --backend and --endpoint genuinely cannot be used together. that's not me being dramatic, that's the actual rule. don't do it. ✋

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that's the whole page bestie, you're officially fluent in rudof node 🌈 go show some node who's boss 👑

💖 this was rudof node version 0.3.8+ds, brought to you from August 2026, mwah, periodt ✨